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RE: If you do Science, use the Scientific Method!
Do the numerious epidemiological studies that shows no
know affects below 10 rem (0.1 Sv) count as proof?
--- "Stabin, Michael"
<michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>
> >That is why "disproving" the LNT is important. It
> is being used in a
> reckless manner, even by those who should know
> better.
>
> I agree that the LNT has been used recklessly, and
> that responsible
> scientists who know better should point out when
> that is occurring.
> However, I think that scientific and intellectual
> honesty is the most
> important element in both our professional lives and
> our dealings with
> the public. I believe that anyone who is honest with
> the data will admit
> that at this point in time we don't know what is
> going on at low levels
> of dose. There is evidence in some experiments and
> data sets of
> thresholds and perhaps hormesis, but in others
> evidence of linearity,
> bystander effects, and other effects at low levels
> that cannot be
> categorically refuted. Until we have a unified and
> accepted
> understanding of low level effects, we should also
> not recklessly claim
> that there are none.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
> Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological
> Sciences
> Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
> Vanderbilt University
> 1161 21st Avenue South
> Nashville, TN 37232-2675
> Phone (615) 343-0068
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> e-mail michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu
> internet www.doseinfo-radar.com
>
>
>
>
=====
"Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law."
Louis D. Brandeis, Supreme Court decision in Olmstead v. U.S., 1928
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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